Remote Working Materials and Resources
Published 17/03/2020
The regularly updated list provides information and guidance on all things remote working. It includes case studies, materials and resources, including support services to help you use any relevant resources in your organisation.
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Training
Pivoting to Remote Work - course for not-for-profits
TechSoup has created a free course to provide information and tools as you make the transition to remote working and help nonprofits lay the groundwork for successful remote office environments.
Remote events
How to turn events into virtual events
Charity Digital covers everything from fundraising events to virtual operational support.
How to Run an Online Virtual Conference
Fundraising Everywhere gives a really useful overview of how to run a virtual conference.
It’s time for a virtual summit
Digital Leaders CEO gives an overview of how virtual conferences could work.
Remote management
A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers
Harvard Business Review gives a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities managing a newly remote team offers.
Keeping team motivation and morale up when working remotely
Charity Digital has produced a handy guide on how to keep team motivation and morale up when working remotely.
Remote Onboarding
Charity guide to virtual onboarding
Over the coming weeks and months, some charities may need to hire new staff. How do you do this when your staff is working remotely? Charity Digital examines successful onboarding practices from organisations with a history of remote working.
Remote meetings
Practical Guide to Remote Meetings
CAST have shared their in house guide to supporting remote meetings. This is a short, easy to understand guide that provides a really useful foundation for in house and external remote meetings.
Top 10 tips on online meetings/conferences/teaching
10 top tips video from BPTC lecturer, Ishan Kolhatkar.
Working from home
Struggling with WiFi and signal issues? Charity Digital has some signal strength boosting tools.
A really useful six point infographic on working productively from home (and staying sane in the process)
Working from Home - Advice from a 20 year veteran
Our resident doctor has shared his experience of 20 years working from home
A crowdsourced effort produced remotely by over 100 volunteers this comprehensive report covers everything from managing a team remotely to wellbeing with lots of useful links to other resources.
Some great advice from LawCare around how to take of yourself while working from home.
DSC have shared their working from home policy to help you and your teams work from home effectively.
Products
How to use remote working tools
The Catalyst have a good collection of advice on how to use remote working tools.
Charity Digital Product Catalogue
Charity Digital, in partnership with Tech Soup, gives eligible UK charities access to major technology companies’ donation programmes, including Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec and Adobe. It also offers charity rates on products such as Zoom which enable remote access meetings.
Open Data Manchester have shared started a list of cheap or free tools for online collaboration that don’t extract lots of data from users.
The Talent Institute have produced this handy infographic giving a good visual overview of the different tools and products available to aid remote working.
Internal Communications
These tools all enable teams to work together remotely. The features differ but most offer chat, call and video features for multi person teams, some offer document sharing too. Most offer free accounts and where there is a charge a charity discount may apply (you can check the Charity Digital Product Catalogue above)
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- WhatsApp Web
Conferencing (calls and Videos)
These tools all enable internal and external partners to join the same call or video meeting remotely. The features differ but most offer call and video features that can be joined by weblink or dial in number. Most offer free accounts and where there is a charge a charity discount may apply (you can check the Charity Digital Product Catalogue above).
- Zoom (Getting started with Zoom video guide)
- Google Hangout (Getting started with Google Hangouts video guide)
- GoTo Meeting
- PowWowNow (a monthly subscription will give an 03 conference number, these are typically included as part of minutes packages with mobile phone contracts)
- Skype (Getting started with Skype video guide)
File Sharing
The other communications and management products listed here will usually include an element of file sharing or allowing for multi-party input but there are others which are more save, store and share focused:
Project Management
These tools are designed designed to help teams organise, track, and manage day to day work, projects and events. You can assign tasks to members of your team, see how work is progressing and be alerted to outstanding tasks.
